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Council narrows proposed buffer for sensitive-use retail to 300 feet, bans such uses on Key Avenue
Summary
Council members amended a draft zoning provision that had included a 2,000-foot buffer, instead approving a motion to prohibit the specified sensitive-use retail within 300 feet of schools, day cares, health-care facilities and churches and to disallow them on Key Avenue; the item was approved on a voice vote at the workshop.
Council members debated a proposed ordinance amendment addressing locations of certain "sensitive-use" retail outlets (transcript language varied; speakers used terms including "smoke/backwash shops" and "baby shops"). Staff said the Planning and Zoning Commission cannot modify ordinances and that the commission had denied an earlier 2,000-foot variant; the matter was before council to approve or deny.
Council member (identified in the transcript as speaker 13) moved to prohibit the specified retail uses within 300 feet of any school, day care or health-care facility and to ban them from Key Avenue; another council member seconded the motion. The motion was amended and clarified on the floor (the amendment referenced health-care facilities and maintained the 300-foot buffer). The mayor called for a voice vote; council members answered "Aye," and the motion carried on the workshop voice vote.
Staff cautioned that existing businesses within the proposed buffer would generally be grandfathered unless they ceased operations for 90 days, in which case the ordinance would apply. Council members asked staff for maps and clarifications about current zoning and locations that would be affected by a 300-foot buffer versus the previously discussed 2,000-foot proposal.
